Sell plastic pallets in South Dakota
South Dakota had 3,269 warehousing jobs in 2025, 43rd among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is meat and poultry processing. Send the lot with its ZIP; the desk reads size, style, grade and marks, and rules it sold, returned or scrapped.
Last reviewed November 12, 2026
South Dakota in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 3,269 (43rd of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 42 (46th of 50); about 78 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 0.17%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 10,866 (37th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- meat and poultry processing, 4.0x the national share of employment
- Auto parts jobs
- 662
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 23 million cubic feet (29th of 50)
Reading a South Dakota lot
South Dakota ranks 43rd for warehousing jobs and 46th for establishments. It is one of the smaller warehousing states, so a lot here is rarely one of many on the same road. The average warehouse employs about 78 people, against 82 across the fifty states. Smaller sites mean smaller stacks, so the count matters more than the size of the site.
South Dakota has 3.3 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. Food plants carry more weight here than the warehouses beside them, so expect hygienic decks and rotated stock. The one other industry counted here is auto parts, at 662 jobs.
Minnehaha County holds 89.6% of South Dakota's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 91.4%. One county carries more than half the state's warehousing, so a lot outside it is a longer haul. The dossier follows one metro in South Dakota: Sioux Falls.
USDA counted 23 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in South Dakota, 29th of 50 and about 7,036 cubic feet for each warehousing job, against 2,254 across the states it reports. Cold storage is a bigger part of the picture here, so expect cold-chain lots: decks that tolerate cold and moisture, and questions about washdown.
Where South Dakota's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Minnehaha | 2,930 | 89.6% |
| Pennington | 33 | 1.0% |
| Union | 25 | 0.8% |
What South Dakota's industries put on the dock
- Meat and poultry processing: 6,460 jobs, 2025
- Dairy product manufacturing: 1,510 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 10,866 jobs, 2025
South Dakota's most concentrated industry is meat and poultry processing, at 4.0 times the national share of employment. See how lots from meat and poultry plants read.
The metro that matters in South Dakota
Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls: 5 counties (Rock, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner). 2,930 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.15% of the US total; 1.8% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Minnehaha (2,930). Most concentrated: food manufacturing at 1.9x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 57104 Sioux Falls (5).
Where South Dakota sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | South Dakota | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 43rd: 3,269 | New Hampshire, 3,283 (+14) | Idaho, 2,445 (-824) |
| Warehousing establishments | 46th: 42 | Montana, 52 (+10) | Vermont, 42 (-0) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 37th: 10,866 | Delaware, 11,157 (+291) | Connecticut, 9,671 (-1,195) |
States next to South Dakota
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 1,438 | Cass (1,186) | 5,564 | food manufacturing |
| Minnesota | 17,921 | Hennepin (3,616) | 47,829 | meat and poultry processing |
| Iowa | 19,824 | Polk (4,393) | 60,161 | meat and poultry processing |
| Nebraska | 8,246 | Sarpy (3,613) | 41,939 | meat and poultry processing |
| Wyoming | 1,974 | Laramie (1,747) | 902 | chemical manufacturing |
| Montana | 428 | Yellowstone (122) | 2,492 | food manufacturing |
South Dakota has fewer warehousing jobs than 3 of these 6 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Iowa, has 6.1 times South Dakota's 3,269. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
More on South Dakota from the sources
- States where dairy product manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Wisconsin (1.1%), Vermont (0.8%), Idaho (0.7%), South Dakota (0.4%), Iowa (0.3%); the national share is 0.13%. (data.bls.gov)
Other pallet-using industries counted in South Dakota
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Auto parts | 662 | 0.2 to 1 |
Sending a lot from South Dakota
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a clean line-change stock, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does South Dakota have?
3,269 private-sector jobs across 42 establishments in 2025, 0.17% of the US total, which ranks South Dakota 43rd of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from South Dakota?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in South Dakota. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which South Dakota industry is most concentrated?
Meat and poultry processing, at 4.0 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Who asks, and what they need
- Plastic recyclers and pallet makers
- Buy broken pallets by weight as HDPE or PP feedstock; want clean, sorted, separated by resin and colour.
- Food and beverage distributors and bottlers
- Clean, odour-free, washable pallets; open or closed deck; 56 x 44 beverage and 48 x 40 sizes; often asks about food-contact paperwork.
- Distribution centres with surplus pallets
- Sell or recycle excess lots, mixed makers and colours, broken pallets.
What the sources say
- States where dairy product manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Wisconsin (1.1%), Vermont (0.8%), Idaho (0.7%), South Dakota (0.4%), Iowa (0.3%); the national share is 0.13%. (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private dairy product manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3115) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Sheboygan County, Wisconsin (3,238), Los Angeles County, California (3,204), Franklin County, Ohio (2,930), Tulare County, California (2,916), Dodge County, Wisconsin (2,659), Marathon County, Wisconsin (2,535). (data.bls.gov)
- Nelson Company defines dynamic capacity as the load a pallet carries in motion, always below static; static as the load at rest and the bottom pallet's limit in a stack; racking as the load across an open rack span, often the lowest and given only for pallets designed for it. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Private employers in the US averaged 168,222 jobs across 2,809 establishments in dairy product manufacturing (NAICS 3115) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Wisconsin (28,840), California (18,374), New York (11,603), Ohio (8,963), Texas (7,529). (data.bls.gov)
- Private warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) paid an average of $56,706 a year across 1,901,976 jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW). (data.bls.gov)
- States where meat and poultry processing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (3.7%), Arkansas (3.1%), Iowa (2.6%), Delaware (2.4%), Mississippi (2.0%); the national share is 0.42%. (data.bls.gov)
- The 48 x 40 in GMA pallet makes up about 30 percent of new US wood pallets. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Metal pallets are under 1 percent of the pallet market. (en.wikipedia.org)
- ISO 6780 lists 1016 x 1219 mm for North America, 1000 x 1200 mm for Europe and Asia and 800 x 1200 mm for Europe. (en.wikipedia.org)
- FM 4996 passes a pallet if fire is controlled at 5.9 mm/min (0.15 GPM/ft2) within a 10-minute test of eight 1.2 m stacks. (iccsafe.org)
- UL 2335 has an idle pallet test and a commodity storage test. (iccsafe.org)
- Resin identification codes do not indicate whether a product is recyclable; ASTM D7611 governs the coding. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Greystone Logistics processed about 60 million pounds of recycled plastic in the year ended May 31, 2024, using damaged plastic pallets from a buy-back program among its feedstock. (resource-recycling.com)
- In April 2017, HDPE HMW regrind from drums and IBCs was 24 to 27 cents per pound picked up in the US South (historical, not current). (resource-recycling.com)
- A 48 x 40 pallet fits 30 stacks in a turned pattern on a 53 ft dry van, per one supplier. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) was 1.4% of the 133,160,274 private-sector jobs QCEW counted in the US in 2025. (data.bls.gov)
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